By: Maria Ward-Brennan

Professional Services Editor Maria Ward-Brennan is the Professional Services Editor at City AM, focused on law, Big Four, and other management and accounting consulting firms. She was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or X (Twitter) @MariaW_B.

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London Market insurers seeking to relocate an aviation case to war-torn Ukraine

March 18, 2024

The companies have had several aircraft damaged or destroyed in Dnipro International Airport and Boryspil International Airport following missile attacks as a result of the war.
Brew by Numbers, Black Sheep and Brick Brewery, spike in brewery collapses shakes sector

March 18, 2024

According to data by accounting firm Mazars, last year (ending December 31), 69 UK breweries went insolvent, up from 38 a record for 2022.
Silk gowns, big wigs and steel buckles shoes: Ceremony set to welcome 95 new King’s Counsel

March 16, 2024

The KC title is one of the highest honours a lawyer can attain and has been in practice since 1597 after Queen Elizabeth I awarded the first batch of Queen Counsels.
WH Smith finance chief set to retire as senior figure at Burberry picked as replacement for role

March 15, 2024

WH Smith has announced that its chief financial officer, after more than two decades at the business, is set to leave the business, to be replaced by a senior member of high-fashion Burberry. Robert Moorhead, the current CFO and chief operating officer of WH Smith, will retire from the business. He joined the company in [...]
High Court rules that self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator is not ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’

March 14, 2024

Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright has long claimed to be behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the person who authored the Bitcoin White Paper.
Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo: Criminal appeal to start for ex-UBS and Barclays traders convicted of rigging

March 13, 2024

Both men were investigated and prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) along with others in the Eibor case.
EY’s incoming chief Janet Truncale names four global bosses in new leadership team

March 13, 2024

Truncale has names four global managing partners, adding that the wider global executive team will be “the same size or smaller” in the future
NHS waiting lists turn private healthcare into the latest front in the war for talent

March 13, 2024

City businesses are increasingly offering private healthcare insurance as an employee benefit when trying to recruit new staff, recruiters and insurers told City A.M.
London Bitcoin trial: Self-proclaimed creator ‘lied on an extraordinary scale’

March 12, 2024

"Wright has been shown to have lied on an extraordinary scale, and it is difficult to think of a precedent for what he has done."
Nord Stream launches lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London insurers over pipeline sabotage

March 12, 2024

Nord Stream AG, a consortium headquartered in Switzerland, is majority owned by the Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom.

Commonwealth Games: How ‘Commy G Lite’ is opportunity for smaller brands

Commonwealth Games: How ‘Commy G Lite’ is opportunity for smaller brands

Volkswagen California 2026 review: plenty of room at the Hotel California

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